Umar al-Suhrawardi

 

Abu Hafs Umar al-Suhrawardi(–1144-1234) was a Kurdish][3] Sufi from Chorasmia and nephew ofAbu al-Najib al-Suhrawardi.
he was Shafi'i (Sunni religion).According to Ibn Hawqal,the kurdish geographer of the fourth century AH, the people of Suhraward, spoke Kurdish and Kurdish were descendants.
 The Gifts of Deep Knowledge

He wrote the 'Awarif el-Maarif, the "Gifts of Deep Knowledge". This book was translated into English by Henry Wilberforce-Clarke and published as "A Dervish Textbook" in 1891. It was reprinted by Octagon Press in 1980.

References
    ^ Muḥammad Kamāl, Mulla Sadra's Transcendent Philosophy, Ashgate Publishing Inc, 2006, ISBN 0-7546-5271-8, p. 12.
    ^ John Renard, "Historical dictionary of Sufism ", Roman & Littlefield, 2005. pg xxviii. excerpt: "Abu 'n-Najib 'Abd al-Qahir as-Suhrawardi, Persian shaykh and author, and scholar who thought Ahmad al-Ghazali, Najm al-Din Kubra and Abu Hafs 'Umar as-Suhrawardi
    ^ Qamar al-Huda, "Shahab al-Din Suhrawardi" in Josef W. Meri, Jere L. Bacharach, Medieval Islamic Civilization: L-Z, index Volume 2 of Medieval Islamic Civilization: An Encyclopedia, Josef W. Meri, ISBN 0-415-96690-6. pp 775-776: "Shahab al-Din Abu Hafs 'Umar al-Suhrawardi belonged to a prominent Persian Sufi family and was responsible for officially organizing the Suhrawardi Sufi order"

Bibliography
    Ohlander, Erik, Sufism in an Age of Transition: Umar al-Suhrawardi and the Rise of the Islamic Mystical Brotherhood (Leiden, Brill, 2008) (Islamic History and Civilization, 71).

books:

Ketāb al-motaqed

Jazb-e  al-qolub elā movasele al-mahboub

E’lām-e Alhodā fi aqide arbāb altaqi

Rašf al-nasayeh

Avārefolmaāref

Divān-e aš’ār

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